• emergencyfood
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    11 months ago

    The sun isn’t massive enough to explode. It will just expand and get hotter, making Earth too hot to support life, and then burn out, making Earth too cold to support life. And even a supernova probably won’t destroy atoms. Most of our atoms will probably survive the ‘death’ of the sun.

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      11 months ago

      I’ll just have to be happy knowing matter breaks down and I won’t be me but the things that were me will be other things, unaware of what they were.

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      11 months ago

      I thought the sun will become a red giant, and the earth will eventually be pulled into the sun. Which I believe will still leave most of our atoms intact.